Error Saving Product Changes

[christopher_oliver]

Hi Magento Commmunity.

I have been having problems all day with permissions access in Magento directories - mainly /var and /media.

I seem to have sorted most of the issues although now I cannot save product changes. When I try, I get the message:

"/home/user/public_html/var/indexer/4//segments_a4xp' is not readable."

- Upon inspection, I can see that that file does not actually exist.

When I try to reindex the Catalogue search index or the Lucene Search Index I get the message "Cannot initialize the indexer process."

What can I do to solve this problem?

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.

[gelanivishal]

Hello @christopher_oliver,

Run Indexing from the CLI

• from the CLI at the root of your magento installation
  

  php shell/indexer.php --reindexall

No folders in var/

1. Make sure that the var/ folder has the correct file permissions and ownership. Magento needs to write to those folders. Magento Permissions & Privileges
2. I recently ran across an install of magento that located the var folder in the root tmp folder of the server, you may want to check there. It was located in /tmp/magento/var/ If your var folder is located there, it is because you have a permissions issue.

Change your memory limit
I agree with sean! Change this in your .htaccess that is located in your site root

ini_set('memory_limit','2048M');

Let us know if you have still a problem.

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